Is Cristina Kirchner actually set to attend Thatcher's funeral?

Number Ten officials were called by the Foreign Office, asking them to invite Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to Thatcher’s funeral – despite the Argentine president’s persistent demands that we return the Falklands, which they failed to capture in the 1982 war. My source says: ‘The FCO wanted to invite Kirchner but privately make it clear she shouldn’t come. But it was pointed out that she would only call their bluff and arrive here anyway.’ Surely this wasn’t the idea of Foreign Secretary William Hague, whose elevation from teenage party conference tyro is often attributed to Margaret Thatcher.

'Bluff'? Number Ten officials were called by the Foreign Office, asking them to invite Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to Thatcher's funeral

Female impersonator Barry ‘Edna Everage’ Humphries admits he has a thing about ladies’ undergarments. He bought ‘a pair of beautiful, lace-trimmed knickers at Sotheby’s which had belonged to Heather Firbank, the sister of Ronald Firbank, a writer whose works I collect,’ he confides in The Spectator. ‘However my biggest disappointment was many years ago when, at an auction in Paris, I shirked the opportunity to acquire, for an extravagant price, the eau de nil panties of (First World War spy) Mata Hari, which had been deaccessioned by the Musee de la Prefecture de Police after her execution.’ Deaccessioned sounds nicer in this context than ‘removed’.

London Mayor Boris Johnson says he wants a ‘Margaret Thatcher International Airport’. When Tories suggested that Heathrow be renamed ‘Diana, Princess of Wales International Airport,’ a palace courtier remarked: ‘It’s hardly a tribute if people spend the next 50 years saying “I lost my luggage at Diana”.’

Jane Fonda plays Nancy Reagan in The Butler, a film about former White House servant Eugene Allen, who served every postwar President up until Ronald Reagan. Now a ‘Boycott Hanoi Jane’ campaign has been set up by those who resent her past Left-wing activities. Jane tells her critics : ‘Get a life!’ She has a point. The actors playing Republican presidents in the film – John Cusack (Richard Nixon) Robin Williams (Dwight Eisenhower) and Alan Rickman (Ronald Reagan) – are all Left-wingers.

Tony Blair’s none-too-veiled attack on Labour leader Ed Miliband, in the New Statesman, suggests that he fancies a return to Number Ten now his dream of being president of Europe has died. Has Margaret Thatcher’s funeral – attended against precedent by the Queen – suggested to Blair, 60 next month, that, despite three general election victories, his place in history is not yet secure? He is blamed by voters across a broad political spectrum for the deaths and maiming of British troops in Iraq and accused of misleading the nation over the case for war.

Washington state on America’s west coast has legalised gay marriage and marijuana. My source says it makes perfect sense, quoting Leviticus 20:13: ‘If a man lies with another man they should be stoned.’